For Michot, that right sound is from Cajun music from the 1920s and ‘30s. Accordion players had to ride their instruments like racehorses, just to be heard above the dance hall noise.

Mouton said a total of 57 years on the bandstand caused him to miss family events and other activities. Now that he’s retired, he goes six months or longer without touching an accordion. He ...

Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69.

Some 58 kids, from age 8 to 14, dragged wooden chairs into a circle Wednesday at the Vermilionville Living History Museum and Folklife Park and performed for Grammy-winner Jo-El Sonnier ...